Sometimes serious. Sometimes humorous. Always unpredictable. By Dan Pimentel - Welcome to the Airplanista Aviation Blog, where I take a lighthearted look at general and business aviation, the airlines, and the incredible and generous community of aviators called #Avgeeks...they are my aviation family. I am currently available for magazine and corporate writing assignments - Email me here.

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This MagazineJust DripsTestosterone

All my life, there has been one magazine I have serious trouble putting down. And you'll be surprised that it's not a flying magazine either. No, it's Popular Mechanics, a publication that breaks down the world of "guy stuff" in a way that nobody else can touch.

Yes, of course women read Popular Mechanics too. That is, if they are interested in the kind of material as shown below, found recently on the PM web site:

Of course, me being me, I always get a charge out of the detailed way PM covers aviation. Their long and very complete articles leaves no fact unreported, and their analysis of flying machines and their performance is phenomenal.

In the current issue, their writer, Mark Huber, has returned from EAA Airventure at Oshkosh, calling it "a melding of wonderful and weird flying machines", and has selected his "Top 10 Best Planes" from the show. Here is his choices: